Which Paul Ryan will show up at vice presidential debate?

The first and only vice presidential debate will be held tomorrow night in Kentucky, and many voters will be watching to see if Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney’s running mate, will walk away from his controversial budget plan, which Romney has praised as “marvelous” and which would impose deep cuts on public education while providing large tax cuts for high-income earners.

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Ryan, a 13-year veteran of Congress and chairman of the House Budget Committee, was the author of a budget plan that would cut $1.1 billion from Head Start and deny more than 2 million poor children the opportunity for high-quality early education.

Eliminates Pell Grants entirely for more than 1 million students over the next decade

The Ryan budget sets the wrong priorities for America. His budget is an American dream killer. He wants to balance the budget on the backs of the nation’s most vulnerable — low- and moderate-income Americans, children and seniors — while giving millionaires, billionaires, and big oil corporations deeper tax cuts, said Arizona high school math teacher and National Education President Dennis Van Roekel.